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FinalRune Productions creates stories for the ear -- original, high-quality audio drama fiction that is edgy and genre-busting, an old medium re-envisioned for a contemporary audience. Featured in the Wall Street Journal on February 25, 2010.

Fred Greenhalgh


    • Mar 11, 2015 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 26 EPISODES


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    A Journey With Strange Bedfellows

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2015


    In collaboration with Forest Rose Productions… Set in the late 1800s, “A Journey with Strange Bedfellows” follows Hunter Brown in his quest to secure true love: the “Hunt” is for Faith Geibel, the young woman of his desires. The harrowing steampunk-esque journey begins in Victorian Great Britain, moves to Paris then eastward to Hungary and finally, […]

    The Cleansed – Season 1 – Episode 8

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2012


    The stage has been set for an incredible battle. John Prophet is locked up, awaiting his fate at the hands of the Dwellers’ justice. Their “BOL” in rural Maine seems far, far away from the troubles afflicting old New York, but this feeling of safety is about to be annihilated. Because in an open field, […]

    The Cleansed – Season 1 – Episode 7

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2012


    With horrors behind them and uncertainty ahead of them, Luke and Maria must come to terms — the road without each other is too frightening. Meanwhile, they have a new friend, one of the Dwellers who shows them beneath the surface of a world that has existed nearby to them their whole lives that they’ve […]

    The Cleansed – Season 1 – Episode 6

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2012


    Rage burns in David’s blood, as hot and incendiary as the coals which lit the crops of The Refuge into a blaze that may leave his people hungry as the brutal winter comes on. As David and his buddy Chris careen on the biodiesel powered ATV “Moby,” Sam, John and the youths land on shore […]

    The Cleansed – Season 1 – Episode 5

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2012


    In the wake of the nightmare that was Tully’s barn, Sam appears ready to go to battle. But there is no battle left, and no chance to help but to mop up the mess. Marc, a wounded young warrior from the Dwellers, tries to keep his lips tight about his homeland and his plight, but […]

    The Cleansed – Season 1 – Episode 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2012


    Having made her decision to continue on the journey, Maria follows John’s direction and steers their canoe downriver. But evils lay before them in this torn land. In a bleak homely homestead in the woods, amidst stacks of rusted up junk cars and a hodge-podge hydro-mill, Maria and John encounter a monster – one that […]

    The Cleansed – Season 1 – Episode 3

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2012


    Dawn is a dim glow on the horizon of the Refuge when savage cries echo from the horizon. Moments later, the chalky rain-starved land turns into an inferno that David and his motley survivors must stop at all costs. Further down the river, Prophet collapses into a heap and Luke runs off looking for help. […]

    The Cleansed – Season 1 – Episode 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2012


    Our sprawling, epic post-apocalyptic series is here!  Be sure to catch up what happened 15 years prior to the start of Season 1 in our Prologue Episode. Far from the safety of the Refuge lies the City of Corinth, a broken place that once called itself New York. From the ashes, John Prophet emerged, uniting […]

    The Cleansed – Season One – Episode 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2012


    Fifteen years have passed since the "Battle of Bangor," the brutal assault on a small Maine city that set off the shattering of Northern New England during The Breaking.

    Intensive Care

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2011


    Alex wakes in a run-down New England hospital with foggy memories of a car accident. He asks nurses about his missing girlfriend, Elizabeth, but can't seem to get any answers. In fact, he can't seem to get anything straight from anyone. And - was that a scream in the distance?

    The Cleansed – Episode Zero

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2010


    Some time in the not so distant future, the world as we know it is starting to unravel. The United States is mired in unwinnable wars, gas is scarce and the transportation system grinds to a halt. Homegrown terrorists take out the electric grid. Food is strictly rationed and distributed by the military. As citizens grow increasingly angry with the government, martial law is called in to maintain peace. And then things really start to get bad.

    The War on Poverty

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2010


    In a back back *back* door meeting in the White House, the President and his most trusted advisors discuss a new conflict which is unavoidable, absolutely essential to America... This new conflict, nay, War, will be a War fought against one of the most pervasive ills that has cursed civilization since the beginning. A War on... Poverty.

    The Troll of Stony Brook

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2010


    An awkward teenager, Jamie, is driving home one night from a party when he hits something - something big. His pushy co-worker, Rick, talks him into going back to the scene of the accident... and what they find will change them both forever.

    Open Season: A Joe Gunther Novel

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2010


    An old lady tormented by lewd phone calls blasts a man with a shotgun as he walks in through the door, and Brattleboro's everyman detective, Joe Gunther, is called out to investigate.

    Three Skeleton Key

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2009


    Three men who tend the light at a reclusive island off the coast of French Guiana see a rogue ship adrift in the Atlantic. The reason for the derelict ship soon becomes obvious - it has been overrun by hundreds of thousands of ferocious ship's rats.

    Live Halloween Show 2009

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2009


    In Halloween, 2009 FinalRune Productions hosted our first live radio drama at the University of Southern Maine's Talbot Lecture Hall in Portland, Maine. Hear this bone-chilling audio experience in its entirety!

    Sorry, Wrong Number

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2009


    A bedridden neurotic woman dials a number and is accidentally connected to a call between two men who are plotting a murder. She becomes increasingly frantic as no one takes her fright seriously and time begins to run out.

    Mad Horse OTR

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2009


    FinalRune had the awesome opportunity to collaborate with Portland, Maine-based Mad Horse Theater Company in the re-creation of some classic old-time radio plays.

    The Most Dangerous Game

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2009


    Wealthy big-game hunter Sanger Rainsford falls off his boat in the middle of the Caribbean and finds himself on a curious island. He finds the mansion of General Zaroff, a Cossack who has a taste for the hunt, and will go to any extreme to keep himself entertained.

    Waiting for a Window

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2008


    An unexpected tropical storm forces Norman D. Waits to moor his ship at a remote island. There he meets dozens of others who are likewise waiting for better weather before they sail on. Yet, that better weather never seems to come, and setbacks keep on happening...

    Dark Passenger

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2007


    Two teenage friends start scaring each other on the drive to a dismal "haunted" house in foggy Downeast Maine. But when their innocent fun starts to become all too real, they soon realize what true terror is.

    Fall of the Hero

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2007


    Sir Grace was the most valiant of all knights, decked in glorious armor that glowed in the sun and a record of dragon-slaying and maiden saving on par with none. But a battle with a renowned wizard with ambiguous ambitions forces Sir Grace to consider things he never imagined, and face his greatest enemy yet: himself.

    Tales from Williamsville

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2007


    How do one repressed arsonist, a sexually-charged geriatric, a slimy drug dealer and a soccer mom on steroids combine in the most exciting thing to happen in Williamsville since 1936?

    Drizzle

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2007


    The unconventional Christmas story of a business man whose life is changed by a random encounter with a stranger.

    The Blind Man’s Confession

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2007


    A chilling audio horror story: A young man's joyride one October night turns into a hell he could never imagine. Originally published in Blue Murder Magazine.

    Day of the Dead

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2007


    A tale inspired by the myth of Orpheus. A young man heads to New Orleans in search of his missing lover, and finds something he never expected: himself.

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